American firm Gensler and an in-house team at the Swiss company EF Education First have updated a historic school campus in Pasadena by renovating buildings and adding new dormitories with roofs that allude to a nearby mountain range. More about Mountains inform rooflines at boarding school in southern California
Decorative brick-clad buildings fold around courtyards at the Aga Khan Academy Dhaka, a boarding school in Bangladesh designed by British practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with architecture studio Shatotto Architecture for Green Living. More about Aga Khan Academy Dhaka wraps around "friendly outdoor learning areas"
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a colourful secondary school in China, which Trace Architecture Office has designed as a "celebration of creativity". More about "So confident, so fluid, so good" says commenter
Brightly coloured volumes and sweeping curves create a playful atmosphere in the Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School, which Trace Architecture Office has added to the Chinese island of Hainan. More about Intersecting coloured blocks "celebrate creativity" in Chinese school
Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has created a brick music school in Nacajuca, Mexico that includes two structures and a lofty, cantilevered roof made of coconut wood. More about Colectivo C733 tops brick music school with soaring timber roof in Mexico
French designer Philippe Starck has revealed his design for the Qatar Preparatory School at an exhibition of upcoming buildings in Qatar during the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Philippe Starck designs school to "revitalise creative production in Qatar"
David Gianotten and Michael den Otter of Dutch studio OMA have designed a modular, mass-timber system that will be used to construct up to 30 schools in the Netherlands. More about OMA develops "wood plug and play system" for 30 Amsterdam schools
UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design for its first public library, a plant-covered building in Columbia, Maryland. More about Heatherwick Studio designs Columbia public library as "new type of community centre"
Classrooms and social spaces are arranged around a tree-filled courtyard at this school, created by Polish practice Jeju Studio for a refugee community in Tanzania. More about "Playful and accessible spaces" wrap courtyard at Wayair School by Jeju Studio
Separate brightly coloured classroom buildings make up this preschool in Gujarat state, India, which was designed by local practice Shreesh Design Studio. More about Shreesh Design Studio builds Indian preschool "as colourful as the minds of its users"
Straw, eelgrass and wood feature in this bio-based extension that Danish architecture studio Henning Larsen has added to Feldballe School in Denmark. More about Henning Larsen uses natural materials for Danish school extension
UK designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio has revealed plans for The British School in Tokyo, which will be the first school the practice has designed. More about Heatherwick Studio designs Tokyo school with "playgrounds between each of the classroms"
Local studio Office of Charles F. Bloszies has completed an extension and renovation of the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco. More about Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex
Timber and rubber are among the natural materials used at this nursery in Stoke-on-Trent, which British practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has designed to echo an adjacent nature reserve. More about Natural materials form "seamless connection" between English woodland and nursery
Architecture practice Stride Treglown worked closely with staff and students at the Deaf Academy to design a campus in Exmouth, UK, with spaces tailored to best suit the needs of deaf people. More about Stride Treglown completes site for the Deaf Academy in Exmouth
UK housing secretary Michael Gove has supported a paper calling for a new architecture school in the UK that focuses on the teaching of traditional design principles. More about Michael Gove supports idea of school for "traditional architecture and urbanism"
London studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a series of tent-like classrooms for displaced communities, which were designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher. More about Zaha Hadid Architects unveils modular tent classrooms for refugees
Spanish architect Andrés Jaque's Office for Political Innovation has completed a school near Madrid that aims to be as colourful and playful as a child's imagination. More about Andrés Jaque designs Reggio School "to become a multiverse"
Vivid shades of blue and turquoise characterise this school in Shenzhen, China, which has been overhauled by People's Architecture Office to offer more creative forms of learning. More about People's Architecture Office completes blue-toned makeover of Fuqiang school
Design and build studio Localworks has created the Mustardseed Junior School in Uganda with organically shaped classrooms built from natural and locally sourced materials. More about Localworks builds irregularly shaped classrooms with earthbags for school in Uganda